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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by angelbar » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 9:41 PM UTC

JuettnerDistrib wrote: post #118

edu wrote: post #64

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This is my same conclusion. With books, movies, series and music I like to own physically only my personal favorites that I know will use many times. But that’s less than 10% of my media consumption.

> With books, movies, series and music I like to own physically only my personal favorites that I know will use many times. I don't own many DVDs, but when I see them in my bookshelf they remind of the story the tell, the context when I watched them, and my theories about society, sci-fi, and utopias that those movies inspired. With books it's even more extreme. I get the physical copy sometimes more to have a physic…

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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by birdyrooster » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 9:41 PM UTC

birdyrooster wrote: post #115

zdw wrote: post #85

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There are already incidences of this: The TV show Community is missing an episode on Netflix for some reason (edit: reason was Ken Jeong in what could be interpreted as blackface). The IT Crowd is missing one in some geos because it was considered anti-Trans by some - that episode also has the unrelated and hilarious plot where Roy and Moss convince Jen that they're loaning her a "black box that holds the entire inte…

BBC is notorious for black face on their programs even in recent decades.

In particular the one that frustrates me frequently is Mitchell and Webb. Why in **s name did they have to lean on blackface?

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by agiacalone » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 9:41 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #95

This is silly. Just rip them and give them away. You'll spend less on mirrored hard drives than storage for the disks. And you can always BitTorrent movies you already own on DVD/BluRay guilt free. The only reason I still have my stack of disks is because I haven't had time to rip them and their special features yet. That and we keep the disks for kids movies because the van doesn't have streaming support or AppleTV…

Ripped all my DVDs in 2010, donated them, and haven't looked back. Nowadays with Plex, I see no reason to ever use physical media again

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by bentley » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 9:43 PM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #261

tzfld wrote: post #163

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This may be space saving, but not a recommended way to store discs for long periods.

Why? They are stored vertically, same orientation as in a DVD case on a bookshelf.

I recently migrated my disc collection from cases. Initially I got binder pages like you linked, but I returned them and got paper sleeves instead, because (1) paper cases are cheaper and more compact, and (2) when I put discs in binders, they rub against the (admittedly soft) backing material, whereas when I put them in paper sleeves, I naturally hold the sleeve such that the discs don’t rub the sleeve when being inserted, and that seems a bit safer.

I do still use a binder for the papers from the cases.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by mdp2021 » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 9:44 PM UTC

Gemoto wrote: post #236

klipklop wrote: post #215

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I bought a copy of ‘Tropic Thunder’ for exactly this reason. One day it will be pulled from all streaming platforms due to RDJ playing a black man.

I mean it's tropic thunder. What would be really lost here?

Some academicians insist in seeing Art even in "popular" works. But also beside that, well, you would lose a popular work - if somebody did it, they probably "put something in it".

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by wintermutestwin » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 9:45 PM UTC

tpmx wrote: post #55

People tend to shit on Spotify (while still using it), but they did manage something that we all want: Access to (almost everything), for a nominal monthly fee. We need the same, but for movies and tv shows. Globally. It's an economical problem that currently has a suboptimal solution.

>We need the same, but for movies and tv shows.

And audiobooks! Audible is stupid.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by tpmx » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 9:49 PM UTC

wintermutestwin wrote: post #326

tpmx wrote: post #55

People tend to shit on Spotify (while still using it), but they did manage something that we all want: Access to (almost everything), for a nominal monthly fee. We need the same, but for movies and tv shows. Globally. It's an economical problem that currently has a suboptimal solution.

>We need the same, but for movies and tv shows. And audiobooks! Audible is stupid.

How is it stupid? I haven't paid attention, but I thought audiobooks were now on a Spotify-like system?

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by ajsnigrutin » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 9:53 PM UTC

andrewstuart wrote: post #307

sebzim4500 wrote: post #299

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Pirate bay is that backup option, at least for me. To use your example of the X-Files, you can currently download a 75 GB torrent with every season + extras and it will only take a few hours. I think people continue seeding torrents for longer than DVDs reliably last.

I've never understood the appeal of downloading pirate movies. Feels dodgy, always a hassle trying to fight your way through all the scams and malware and porn and when you get the movie it's of questionable quality. If I buy a DVD then I get perfect quality in a nice case in a day or two without having to visit the seedy red light district of the Internet only to get dud contraband.

Or you live outside of USA and there is no store that has X files dvds. Also no streaming service offers that here. Also due to copyright and region locking, I cannot import them from USA.

But somehow if I pirate that, i cause them 'damage'.

Luckily on most sites, pirated videos have keywords in filename (720p, 1080p, 4k,... x264, x265,... ) so you can see the quality and choose what filetype you want/need.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by bentley » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 10:04 PM UTC

deadbunny wrote: post #235

RajT88 wrote: post #135

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A related, but different phenomena: Streaming episodes have been edited to inject product placement. I read an article a while back about how old Friends episodes have movie posters in the background of films which were released after 2010.

[citation needed] Can't find any evidence of this at all.

There was a case of it just recently—the Amazon Jack Reacher series was released in February (around tax time) and had a TurboTax ad edited onto the side of a building when viewed in America.

https://gizmodo.com/digital-ads-streaming-netflix-amazon-nbc...

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by denkmoon » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 10:07 PM UTC

andrewstuart wrote: post #307

sebzim4500 wrote: post #299

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Pirate bay is that backup option, at least for me. To use your example of the X-Files, you can currently download a 75 GB torrent with every season + extras and it will only take a few hours. I think people continue seeding torrents for longer than DVDs reliably last.

I've never understood the appeal of downloading pirate movies. Feels dodgy, always a hassle trying to fight your way through all the scams and malware and porn and when you get the movie it's of questionable quality. If I buy a DVD then I get perfect quality in a nice case in a day or two without having to visit the seedy red light district of the Internet only to get dud contraband.

None of those apply if you put a modicum of effort into it, and then you get access to almost all media in human history unencumbered by the copyright "people". Without having shelves filled with plastic crap.